# Can you ID this old jazz song? \[solved\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 6, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451 "2022-11-06T02:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/1 "2022-11-06T02:58:35Z")
I’ve had this earworm for days. My roommate and I think its an old jazz song from the '30s or '40s… rather than an unrecognizable amalgamation of things I’ve listened to over the years. (click the black box to listen) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CYvDM5k0w40/hqdefault.jpg "11/05/2022 12:47 PM") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvDM5k0w40) I tried a couple apps that use artificial intelligence to ID songs. The best they could do is “[You Belong to Me](https://youtu.be/zQfF84ackMM)”, “[How Far I’ll Go](https://www.youtu.be/cPAbx5kgCJo)”, and “[奶与茶](https://www.youtu.be/TlI0gBJX5hk)”, none of which sound remotely similar. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/2 "2022-11-06T03:14:41Z")
Don’t recognize it, but I’m damn impressed with your skills at sitting down at the keyboard and rendering your earworm so fluently. I do recognize the style. 30’s era jazz / ragtime, pre-big-band. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/3 "2022-11-06T12:14:01Z")
Damned catchy tune! So long as you’re unsure of its provenance, you might want to try copyrighting it and see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/4 "2022-11-06T17:12:44Z")
Recognize it. It’s old, as AHunter3 points out, and was/is quite popular. But I’ll be damned if I can name it. I _think_ the chorus contains the lyric ‘Don’t Say Maybe’. Almost sounds a bit like "Hey Good Lookin’ too, Hank Williams. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/5 "2022-11-06T17:31:18Z")
> [@Keith1](#): > > Almost sounds a bit like "Hey Good Lookin’ too, Hank Williams. Does rather sound like a jam session version of that. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/6 "2022-11-06T17:56:19Z")
Some of it sounds to like a jazz version of ‘When I’m 64’ by the Beatles ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/7 "2022-11-06T17:57:35Z")
Parts of it sound like “Sixty Minute Man,” which was a hit for Billy Ward and his Dominoes in 1951. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/8 "2022-11-06T17:59:52Z")
Heck, parts of it sound almost like the music from Super Mario Bros 2… ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/9 "2022-11-06T19:09:03Z")
And part of it sounds like Lulu’s Back in Town, but that’s largely due to the very common chord progression first heard at 0:17 in the OP’s link. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/10 "2022-11-06T19:11:27Z")
Parts of it sound like _one, two, three strikes, you’re out…_ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/11 "2022-11-06T19:21:27Z")
Yeah, I was definitely hearing this at the end of the first or second verse. I also heard the similarities to Super Mario 2. It also sounds like the little cakewalk breakdown in the song “Glory” from the original cast recording of Pippin. It’s just all so familiar without being completely like any of those songs. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/12 "2022-11-06T22:56:31Z")
Sixty Minute Man gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/13 "2022-11-07T00:56:06Z")
I hear a number of melodies (“Sixty Minute Man” isn’t one of them–this piece is more complicated, and doesn’t have the distinctive progression over (“…fifteen minutes of kissin…'”) in the bridge. The first thing I thought of was [“I’ll Be Down to Get You in a Taxi Honey”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vrpb-LbaS0&t=54s) (the chorus of “Darktown Strutters Ball”). I’ll be surprised if it’s a single song. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/14 "2022-11-07T01:25:18Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s a single song. I even think it’s been sung to, but I have a vague feeling the lyrics have made up words about some mundane thing. Not scat, but like a few nonsense words. > [@AHunter3](#): > > I do recognize the style. 30’s era jazz / ragtime, pre-big-band. > [@Keith1](#): > > Recognize it. It’s old, as AHunter3 points out, and was/is quite popular. But I’ll be damned if I can name it. As you think it’s a popular tune from the 30s era I’ve dusted off my Hal Leonard books (gifts I never got around to using). Seeing as I can’t really read music (have to count lines) the going is slow. I can’t just look at the chords because I’m not pitch perfect - I chose C for convenience. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/15 "2022-11-07T04:27:22Z")
I heard that too. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/16 "2022-11-07T04:52:20Z")
Part of its sounds like The Beatles “When I’m Sixty four”…particularly “When Im sixty four” I see now this was already mentioned ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/17 "2022-11-07T06:16:27Z")
It’s just a shot in the dark but I’m getting flashes of old “variety shows” from the late '50s and early '60s where the host, somebody like Perry Como or Andy Williams, sings a duet with a female guest. I’m hearing “Side By Side” or “Darktown Strutters Ball”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/18 "2022-11-07T16:46:20Z")
I’m voting for “unrecognizable amalgam” as there are a lot a familiar boogie woogie/stride tropes in there, but it could simply be something obscure. Damn catchy, though. Will give it some thought. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/19 "2022-11-07T16:51:44Z")
I’m 95% sure that is a standard called “Frim-Fram Sauce.” 🙂 Here is a slower version from [Nat King Cole](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2IojSam_U), and something at your tempo by [Diana Krall](https://youtu.be/ZS_6vtAGTE0). ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/20 "2022-11-07T16:56:06Z")
That’s what I was thinking as well. I searched for “Flim-Flam sauce” a couple of days and got nothing, so I gave up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451.md?page=2)